Steve Bachmann

Unbecoming Jane Steve Bachmann

There is a becoming Jane Austen who delights Victorians, spinsters, and weenies - and who disgusted Mark Twain. There also exists a nastier Jane Austen who challenges traditional notions of fitness and propriety. Much of this Jane vanished when her sister Cassandra burned many of her letters. However, a caustic Jane Austen remains to be appreciated in her novels, juvenilia, and surviving correspondence. With insights afforded by psychoanalysis, Regency history, and evolutionary theory, (and Proust and Casanova and Stendhal), Steve Bachmann recovers a Jane Austen who is unbecoming, adult, entertaining - and truly classic. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Steve Bachmann, AB (Harvard), MFA (UNO), JD (Harvard), has represented many organizations working for social change as an attorney. He is also co-founder of The New Orleans Art Review. He has written scores of law review articles and several books over the years, including The U. S. Constitution for Beginners (Writers & Readers Press, 1987), illustrated by Pulitzer prize winner Joel Pett; Preach Liberty (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990); Nonprofit Litigation (John Wiley & Sons, 1992); Lawyers, Law and Social Change, (2001) published in conjunction with the ACORN Cultural Trust and Unlimited Publishing LLC; and three previous books of art and literary criticism, titled Simulating Sex (2002); Beyond NOLA: New Orleans Reviews of Art (with Terrington Calas, 2002); and EXTREME PROUST (2007) all published in conjunction with The New Orleans Art Review, the ACORN Cultural Trust and Unlimited Publishing LLC. This is his newest book.